28 Days Later #4

Tim Bradstreet's cover for this 2011 Boom! Studios entry in the *28 Days Later* series is a chilling piece of work — a gas-masked figure in a dress stands front and center, bloodied machete in hand, against a deep crimson backdrop crawling with silhouetted infected on the horizon and a helicopter cutting through the haze above. The biohazard symbol looming overhead and the distressed, almost propaganda-poster texture give the whole image a suffocating, post-apocalyptic dread. If you want a single image that captures the raw tension of this world, Bradstreet delivers it here.